Bartram?s Living Legacy: the Travels and the Nature of the South reprints Bartram?s classic work alongside essays acknowledging the debt southern nature writers owe the man called the ?South?s Thoreau.? The book was nominated for the Georgia author of the Year Award.

"The ecosystems
that once defined the southern landscape have disappeared, as
though some cataclysmic geological event had simply obliterated
them. We know of them chiefly through William Bartram's Travels
published in 1791. It would be about two centuries before a group
of southeastern writers/naturalists/activists began to survey the
landscape that we are left with, and to think about the
consequences of what has been lost, and the power, beauty, and
richness of what remains. Dorinda Dallmeyer, the editor of this
wonderfully conceived volume, has been at the center of that
group. Her idea of combining the text of the Travels with
reflections by contemporary southern writers is a brilliant one.
Bartram remains an indispensable writer, whose work has been
neglected for too long. Now at last he, his book, and the land he
describes have their champions. Some of the essayists here
focus on Bartram the man, some on Bartram the naturalist, some on
Bartram the writer and artist. And some focus, as he himself had
done, on the landscape and ecology of the South as it now is, and
as it once was.

Some of the essayists in this book I have known and admired for
years; some are entirely new to me. They do not speak with one
voice, or on behalf of any preconceived agenda. But their
contributions, taken all together, indicate that the South now has
its own distinctive tradition of environmental literature.
Bartram, not Emerson, Thoreau, Muir, or John Burroughs, is its
progenitor, and this book, I believe, will come to be seen as its
cornerstone."

Description: "Reefer Moon" is the latest Evening Post Publishing Company and Joggling Board Press collaboration - a deliciously decadent story. Two-time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project and the Orion Writing Circle Award, Roger Pinckney's latest novel takes you to his home turf of Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.

NEW YORK CITY ? JANUARY 27, 2010 ? Film producer Elliott Merck, a Charleston, S.C. native who lives in Manhattan and Los Angeles, has been looking for a good novel to develop into a first-rate motion picture. And he thinks he has found it in ?Reefer Moon,? a raucous love story by Roger Pinckney about unscrupulous developers of a South Carolina barrier island, drug smugglers and murder, with some whacky Gullah hoodoo thrown in.

?One good ?hit? deserves another,? Merck repeats with a laugh as he reads the words on a new gold sticker the publisher ? Evening Post Publishing Company of Charleston, S.C. ? placed on the front of the novel soon after Merck bought the movie rights. The setting for the book is curiously isolated Daufuskie Island, just south of the chic golfing paradise of Hilton Head Island and north of historic Savannah, Ga.

Mr. Pinckney?s story is loosely based on the massive federal Operation Jackpot marijuana bust in the 1980s ? the largest ever on the United States east coast involving more than a half-billion worth of the illegal weed, 156 arrests and sending 155 people to federal prison. The author, who resides on Daufuskie and commutes regularly to the mainland by boat because there is no bridge to the island, is a seventh-generation South Carolinian and noted expert on Sea Island witch doctoring. He has written seven books, is a popular speaker on Lowcountry, S.C. culture, a hunter, fisherman, conservationist and tour guide. He has also farmed, preached the Gospel and managed to stay out of jail most of the time during his 64 years in this life.
His story is set in the summer of 1986 when smuggling is in full swing and Sea Island tomatoes are ripe for picking. Two extremely unlikely islanders ? one who is rich and married and enjoys playing ?naked golf? at night with her friends, and the other a hard-scrabble Army war veteran with a moon-driven buzz in his brain ? fall passionately in love with the help of the local African-American voodoo man.

?It?s about Operation Jackpot, one of the biggest marijuana-smuggling rings ever busted on the east coast of the United States,? Merck said. ?This is a hugely marketable story and should make a very enjoyable film. It has cult classic written all over it.?
Just about every young man between ages 17 and 25 who lived in or around the coastal town of Beaufort, S.C. and who owned a boat was involved in the Jackpot sting in one way or another.

Many were from some of the finest families in coastal Carolina. A few got caught and served time, but most laid low, hiding tens of thousands of dollars in cash they were paid to work as spotters and to secure safe off-loading sites among Beaufort County?s hundreds of hard-to-reach islands.

?While most of our projects take place outside of South Carolina, we jumped at the opportunity to work on such a fun film based in the Lowcountry,? Merck said. Editor John M. Burbage of the Evening Post Publishing Company as a great eye for producing special stories about the South, and we look forward to getting to work on adapting Roger Pinckney?s novel for the screen.?